{"id":194,"date":"2014-05-14T09:10:56","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T21:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eion.robbmob.com\/blog\/?p=194"},"modified":"2014-05-14T09:10:56","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T21:10:56","slug":"facebook-to-shut-down-their-xmpp-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eion.robbmob.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/14\/facebook-to-shut-down-their-xmpp-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook to shut down their XMPP service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So it&#8217;s been recently announced that Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/docs\/chat\/\">are planning on turning off their XMPP gateway<\/a> for Facebook Messaging.  Their announcement says that it&#8217;ll be completely turned off for good <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/docs\/apps\/changelog\">as of April 2015<\/a>, but that it&#8217;s just deprecated for now.<\/p>\n<p>This is kind of a bittersweet announcement.  The XMPP gateway was <a href=\"https:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/pidgin-facebookchat\/wiki\/XMPPDifferences\">never really as feature-complete<\/a> as any of the other messaging options provided by Facebook (by this, I mean the mobile Messenger client and the Firefox-powered Desktop Messenger), but it&#8217;s rise to prominence was the main reason I gave up on the old HTTP-based Facebook Plugin for Pidgin, which pretended to be a mobile browser.<\/p>\n<p>So, now it looks like it might be time to dust the cobwebs off the old FB plugin and give it another crack.  The other option is starting again, but reverse-engineering how the mobile Messenger clients work (might have something to do with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MQTT\">MQTT<\/a>?).<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s another big service dumping XMPP &#8211; we&#8217;ve already had MSN, AIM and Google deprecate their XMPP gateways.  Who&#8217;s next?  Does this make XMPP dead?  What&#8217;s going to be the &#8216;next big thing&#8217; in messengers?  I guess that&#8217;s half the reason I like working with libpurple\/Pidgin is that it&#8217;s an ever changing landscape with new things to learn from bigger companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it&#8217;s been recently announced that Facebook are planning on turning off their XMPP gateway for Facebook Messaging. Their announcement says that it&#8217;ll be completely turned off for good as of April 2015, but that it&#8217;s just deprecated for now. This is kind of a bittersweet announcement. The XMPP gateway was never really as feature-complete [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3CEsE-38","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eion.robbmob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eion.robbmob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eion.robbmob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eion.robbmob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eion.robbmob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eion.robbmob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eion.robbmob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eion.robbmob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eion.robbmob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}